[Albright]

Good points here, but let's have a quick look at the examples provided here:

> There are some companies you can rely on: Bare Bones, Panic, and Omni (my employer), for instance.

Hmm. Panic killed its early MP3 player Audion not long after Apple started shipping iTunes in their OS for free [1]. And Omni has allowed their once mind-blowingly great web browser OmniWeb [2] to wither; though theoretically still in development, only "test builds" of the latest version have been available for years, and it doesn't even have its own page on Omni's site anymore.

The author's point - that software companies discontinuing software sometimes is a thing that happens regardless of other factors - still stands, but the companies the author cites as counter-examples are not themselves flawless.

[1]: https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/

[2]: https://www.omnigroup.com/more

[WoodenChair]

Those are two cherry picked extreme examples in the sense that both Audion and OmniWeb were fighting for markets that Apple moved into in a big way. However, I think Brent picking any companies at all as "examples of the good guys" undermines his larger point.

[OopsCriticality]

Also OmniGraphSketcher, a wonderful and unique utility that Omni divested from. Kindly, they open-sourced it;[0] sadly, the project shows no activity since last year and would seem to be abandoned.[1]

[0] https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/setting-omnigraphsketcher-fre...

[1] https://github.com/graphsketcher/GraphSketcher